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Plot Summary:
First film of epic triptych complete "The Saint of the Sword" and "Guemes land in arms." Adaptation of the poem on the gaucho Martin Fierro Argentine writer José Hernández. When Martin Fierro returns to the family ranch it is abandoned. Remember then his quiet life until he was forcibly recruited to serve in the army of the border, which ended defecting.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Drama, History, Western
Country: Argentina
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Juan Moreira (1973)
Plot Summary:
Juan Moreira is jailed for claiming his due. Upon his release takes vigilantism and signa definitely your destination: persecution and death. It joins the ranks of Alsina and enters policy committee. Betrayed is passed to the side of General Mitre. Amidst these political struggles, fraud and treachery, left to their own devices, you only have one option.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 521
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History, Western
Country: Argentina
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western
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The Man from Snowy River: Arena Spectacular (2003)
Plot Summary:
Jim Ryan and Kate Conroy love each other, but John Conroy stands in the way of their happiness until Jim Ryan recaptures a prized colt.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance, Western
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: funny
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The Return of Desperado (1988)
Plot Summary:
Duell McCall is in New Mexico running afoul of local land baron. McCall pauses long enough in his escape flight to come to the aid of black homesteader who is being victimized by the diabolical Foxworth.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
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The Reward (1965)
Plot Summary:
A crash-landed crop-duster (Max von Sydow) betrays a fugitive (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) and his girlfriend (Yvette Mimieux) to Mexican bounty hunters.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 279
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, neo western
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Posse from Hell (1961)
Plot Summary:
Murphy goes after bad guys who shot his friend the sheriff and abducted a local girl. In a plot reminiscent of High Noon, the posse of town blowhards gradually abandons Murphy; only tenderfoot banker Saxon remains, to prove his manhood. When they find the girl, obviously abused by her captors, Murphy shows her acceptance and sympathy whereas the others disply only revulsion.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tension, suspense
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Montford: The Chickasaw Rancher (2021)
Plot Summary:
A Chickasaw man survives great hardships and tragedy to establish a vast ranching empire along the famous cattle highway of the American West.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 971
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: inspirational
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The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1982)
Plot Summary:
The entire cause of the problem evolves from the use of a deputy to translate. His command of Spanish is inadequate and he mistranslates what a witness tells the sheriff as to whether the real perpetrator of the crime is riding a mare (yegua) or a male horse (caballo). This error results in destroying a family and the death of an innocent man.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 700
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: political, intercultural, historical drama
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Zama (2017)
Plot Summary:
Based on the novel by Antonio Di Benedetto. Don Diego de Zama, a Spanish officer of the 17th century settled in Asunción, awaits his transfer to Buenos Aires.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Dominican Republic, France, Netherlands, Mexico, Switzerland, USA, Portugal, Lebanon
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: art house, artsy, avant garde, independent film, existential, cult classic
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All Hell Broke Loose (2009)
Plot Summary:
After serving his county in the Civil War as a skilled sharpshooter, Will Drayton moved West in search of employment using his shooting skills. He ends up with the wrong type of people as a deadly assassin.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western
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The Legend of Custer (1968)
Plot Summary:
Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer has been reinstated and assigned to command the 7th Cavalry Regiment at Fort Hays. The regiment has become a ragtag outfit of thieves and ruffians and Custer must whip the soldiers into shape to fight, the Kiowa, Sioux and Blackfoot tribes who confront them. These tribes are being supplied shotguns by a white gunrunner and Custer and his men must rescue General Terry and the Fifth Cavalry Regiment from annihilation when they are ambushed and trapped by a large Kiowa war party.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
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God Is My Colt .45 (1972)
Plot Summary:
God Is My Colt .45.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western
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Blood River (1991)
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Jimmy Pearls, a directionless young drifter, kills Henry Logan's son and two other men after he found out that they murdered Jimmy's parents for their land. Trying to get away from Logan's vengeance, he goes to ground in the mountains and meets Winston Patrick Culler, an old trapper, who becomes his traveling companion and protector. Jimmy doesn't understand though why Culler is helping him.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
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Seven Dollars on the Red (1966)
Plot Summary:
A little boy is abducted by ruthless bandit gang leader El Cachal after Cachal and his men butcher the boy's family with the exception of his father. Johnny Ashley, the gunslinger father of the boy, goes searching for his son. Alas, the boy has grown up to be a mean and vicious criminal. Written by Woodyanders.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Two Violent Men (1964)
Plot Summary:
Two violent men bent on revenge in the old west.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western
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Gunpoint (1966)
Plot Summary:
A Colorado sheriff pursues a ruthless gang of train robbers into New Mexico, where he has no official jurisdiction. Accompanying him is a motley posse, including a sharp-shooting gambler whose fiancee the gang has kidnapped.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 849
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Young Guns of Texas (1962)
Plot Summary:
A man searching for a stolen army payroll is joined by several men after the reward money. One of the pursuers, after killing a ranch foreman, elopes with the ranchers' daughter. Enraged at the shooting of his foreman and convinced that his daughter was kidnapped, the rancher leads a posse after his daughter. When Apaches attack the thieves and their pursuers, the rancher's posse is forced to side with his daughter's new husband and his friends.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Return of Josey Wales (1980)
Plot Summary:
Legend has it-he lives. In this Western drama, some friends of gunfighter Josey Wales (Michael Parks, who also directed) are killed South of the border, so he heads to Mexico to confront a crooked local chief of police and get a good buddy out of jail. After Josey arrives, he manages to free an Apache woman and two inmates, as well as his friend Ten Spot. But soon the going gets rougher for everyone concerned. This sequel to Clint Eastwood's classic The Outlaw Josey Wales is a rendering of good guys versus bad, with an emphasis on gunfights.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 183
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane (1980)
Plot Summary:
Former Marshal Will Kane returns to Hadleyville a year after he resigned and finds the town in the grip of a tyrannical marshal who abuses his power.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
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Renegade Riders (1967)
Plot Summary:
Chamaco finds himself on the wrong end of a firing squad after tracking an ex-Confederate to interrogate him about General Beauregard's missing gold. He's saved by a stranger who calls himself Stuart (Byrnes). Stuart claims to know the location of Beauregard's strongbox, and so Chamaco takes him to Blake's camp. After a sort of initiation by the gang, Stuart leads Blake's men back across the border to Durango to retrieve the gold. Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
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Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
Plot Summary:
A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyennes.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, disturbing, retro, period piece, historical drama, captivating, epic, 70mm film
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The Comancheros (1961)
Plot Summary:
Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fairy tale, tense, sentimental, light, sexy
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Ride the High Country (1962)
Plot Summary:
An ex-lawman is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, sentimental, realistic, retro, cult classic, aesthetic, serious, captivating, tense, atmospheric
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Lonely Are the Brave (1962)
Plot Summary:
A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the penitentiary.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: black and white, existential, retro, tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, neo western, road movie
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Dead Man's Revenge (1994)
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Bitter and vengeful fugitive Luck Hatcher, dignified former slave turned bounty hunter Jessup Bush, and wily deputy U.S. Marshal Bodine all converge in a small town so they can hatch an intricate con in order to bring greedy and ruthless railroad speculator Payton McCay to justice.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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Shootout in a One-Dog Town (1974)
Plot Summary:
A small-town banker is forced to protect his town against a vicious gang of bank robbers determined to get the $200,000 stored in his bank.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
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The Burning (2014)
Plot Summary:
Kaí is a mysterious shaman who emerges from the Rio Paraná to help a poor farmer and his daughter, who are threatened by a band of cold-blooded mercenaries hired to force them to sell their land.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 896
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Mexico, Argentina, Brazil
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, psychological, tense, suspense, inspirational, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
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Buffalo Soldiers (1997)
Plot Summary:
They've ridden dusty miles without end and fought fierce battles. Yet when these brave African-American cavalrymen enter a scraggly frontier town, they must walk through it instead of ride. The town dishonors them but the soldiers' Native-American foes do not. Apache leader Victoria and other warriors give the horsemen a name of honor and strength: "Buffalo Soldiers". The troopers' daring hunt for Victorio frames this stirring tribute to the former slaves and other African-Americans of the 9th and 10th U.S. Calvary Regiments. Danny Glover, Mykelti Williamson, Glynn Turman, Carl Lumbly and Michael Warren star in an adventure bringing to light that largely unknown story and the unique moral dilemma the men faced. Atten-hut! "Buffalo Soldiers are riding" through town.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 899
Genere: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, disturbing
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Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)
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The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation. Not all the Apaches are able to adapt to the life of corn farmers. One in particular, Geronimo, is restless. Pushed over the edge by broken promises and necessary actions by the government, Geronimo and thirty or so other warriors form an attack team which humiliates the government by evading capture, whi.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: intense, factual, serious, captivating, realistic, entertaining, anamorphic, cult classic, sincere, rough
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Wyatt Earp's Revenge (2012)
Plot Summary:
Wyatt Earp is approached by a journalist for an interview about how he became a famous sheriff. Earp told the story of how he was a fearless U.S. Marshall. If 27-year old Wyatt Earp comes out that his first girlfriend Dora Hand was murdered. Together with his friend Doc Holliday, Bat Masterson, Bill Tilghman and Charlie Bassett he goes hunting for the perpetrator.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, realistic, captivating, tense, rough
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Tombstone (1993)
Plot Summary:
Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining town of Tombstone. But Earp is forced to don a badge again and get help from his notorious pal Doc Holliday when a gang of renegade brigands and rustlers begins terrorizing the town.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 162000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspense, serious, factual, tense, intense, cult classic, spaghetti western, epic, historical drama